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@Cole: Yes! I keep telling myself how lucky I am that I don't have problems ovulating or anything else. There are a lot of women who aren't as lucky. I started trying in July..so we've been trying 5/6 months now. Not too long, but definitely long enough.

@LindsayInNY: Looks like you guys will have a really good time! I love Michigan in the Winter (well all the time really, they have great weather). There's something about having snow on Christmas that I love! Today is your one year mark of trying? I'm sorry, girl. I understand not wanting to know..I got really nervous just answering the phone call thinking they were going to tell me bad news. I seriously struggle with trying to understand why it comes so easy for some people and so hard for others.

@Mrs. Tea: I'm sorry. It really doesn't matter how long it takes (well, besides 1 month) the whole process just really sucks.

@Littlebit: Congrats on the good test results!

@littlek: I can't believe we have no POASers today. We need to move some of the ladies on the board up to the BFP column quick!

We are not travelling for the holidays. But I am flying up to the San Francisco bay area this week for work and am taking my man with me. Anyone have any San Mateo or Marin county dining or entertainment suggestions???

@cole: I obsessively googled implantation spotting all weekend! it was so brief and so far out from my usual AF timing that it seems like there could be a chance that's what it was. the waiting is killing me, though!

@littlebit: congratulations on the good test results!!

for the holidays, we are driving from NC to our mutual hometown in PA. the timing of Christmas in the middle of the week means we can actually go home for an entire week, so we are pretty excited!

@mrskoloa: holy moly. That chart is really all over the place! No advice here, but the positive OPK is a great sign! Have you been BDing the past few days?

@Cole: Your chart does look good!!

@erind425: Is your office closed for the entire week of Christmas? What about New Years week? I don't know my office schedule yet and I'm dying!

What in the... 23 pages and it's only the 9th?! Haha. I just came back to check in and see what's going on with all the POASers.

@stratosphere: @kodybear: @MartinisandOnesies: A little late, but CONGRATS!

I'm due to test tomorrow, but I'm not really feeling it. DH and I did not do our due diligence this month, so I'm going to be surprised if I get a BFP. I think I might wait until I'm a week late before I test. Although, that would be the way it happens... work our butts off every month, and then the one month we take it easy... BOOM! I'm not really feeling any sort of crampiness either though, so who knows.

@MrsMcD: we're officially closed on christmas eve & christmas, but I'm taking the other days that week as vacation. we also get new year's eve & new year's day as paid holidays, which is great! I work for a university so the holidays are pretty straightforward. my husband will unfortunately be working from his firm's PA office while we are home...he is a slave to the billable hour at the moment. I hope you hear about your time off soon!!

@Mrs. Tea: @LittleLashesToes: @sapphire: Sorry you are all out

@littlek: I think I'm going to test on 12/14

@LindsayInNY: Your correlation between being sick and pregnant is totally getting my hopes up! I get what you are saying about being afraid to go in, my doctor told me I can come in in March if we aren't ku by then and I am ok with an initial round of things like blood tests but I am worried about it going any further than that. In part it is because my dh feels pretty strongly that his limit is clomid or something similar before moving onto adoption. In theory I agree but I am afraid the financial end of it will make me push for further interventions since a fair amount would be covered by insurance as opposed to just paying for adoption.

@Mrs. Tea: & @LittleLashesToes: I am sorry to hear that you are out.

@mrskoloa: I felt like my chart was a disaster at the beginning of this cycle but FF somehow made sense of it. Are your open circles due to anything significant? If you exclude a few of those it doesn't look that bad.

@littlek: I have one dollar store test and two digitals, it is killing me not to go buy a frer right now. My dh has been under the weather for the past few days and I feel pretty off so I am sort of afraid I am getting my hopes up when in reality I am just sick. The upshot is I am queasy and have a headache and he has more of a respiratory thing.

Does anyone else notice a higher temp than normal when sick? I have taken it during the day just to make sure I am not running a low grade fever or something and it is right around normal.

Where does everyone buy their FRER's? I've been buying them on Amazon or eBay, whichever is cheapest. BUT, I recently went to Walmart for the first time in like two years and saw that they had a pack with two for $8.98...that with a $1.00 coupon on the box brought it down to $7.98, I was pretty pumped! The only problem with that is actually having to go to Walmart...which I hate. I swear, I almost have a stroke every time I walk in that place.

@Littlebit: Oh boy, I wish you hadn't told me that! I hate Walmart too, it is always a zoo and well... I just don't have anything nice to say about the place. I have been buying them at CVS, I just hoard all my coupons from them and buy them there especially if I can catch them on sale. I think I average about $4 a test which is what you paid and is what the price is running on Amazon right now if you aren't doing s&s.

@NorCalWayfarer: Thank you for the suggestions! Brunch on a deck sounds wonderful. I don't yet know where we will be staying, but I always looks for a happy compromise between some place super close to the courthouse and some place fun.

@spaniellove: No, I stopped after Friday night (I took it then but haven't since). I'm suppose to take it for 12 days but by the time I confirm O, that would be one heck of a LP. So last cycle and this I've taken it for 10 days. Today's 16DPO though. Last cycle AF came on 17DPO, which was 3 days after I stopped it (if I'm counting right)?

@spaniellove: I POAS on Saturday which was 14DPO and it was negative. Even though I'm reading into my symptoms now, I don't feel optimistic or pessimistic. Depending on my temp tomorrow, I might POAS again, just to be sure. Worse case scenario, if it's positive, I'll just start the progesterone again.

@Littlebit: Ugh I would have been upset too. Hope you will be able to call back with a bfp long before then! I buy my frers and opks on Amazon subscribe and save. That's when you know you've been ttc-ing too long!

@Mrs. Tea: @LittleLashesToes: @sapphire: Sorry guys.